Changing Patterns Of Delinquency And Crime

Lyle W. Shannon

An Introduction to the Research on Delinquency and Crime -- Assessing the Relationship of Adult Criminal Careers to Juvenile Careers -- The Relationship of Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime to the Changing City Structure -- The Development of Serious Criminal Careers and the Delinquent Neighborhood -- Variation in the Process of Developing Serious Criminal Careers -- A More Precise Evaluation of the Effects of Sanctions -- Prediction and Typology Development -- Typologies Based on Offense Seriousness or Severity of Sanctions -- Drug Offender Types and Their Relationship to the Ecology of the City -- Summary and Conclusions